Dick Cheney's shades reflect a strange being
The White House website hosts a photo of Dick Cheney "fly-fishing on the Snake River in Idaho," wearing a pair of reflective glasses. Eagle-eyed William Gibson noticed that there's something awfully weird reflected in them: mutant hybrid sex-slave? Tentacle creature? Elder god? Link (Thanks, Bill!)
Update: in this higher rez version, the Schwa has cleverly disguised itself as Dick's arm -- thanks, Evan!
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Odd that they lowered the resolution. When I saw this photo earlier, it was even more obvious that the reflection is of a hand holding a fishing rod.
it just looks like a reflection of his hand to me. Holding something, perhaps a fishin' pole.
Maybe this could be some sort of Rorschach test.
I can't wait until the conspiracy lunatics get ahold of this....
Like everything on the Whitehouse website (I assume), if you remove the last part of the filename it gets bigger.
http://www.whitehouse.gov/vicepresident/photoessays/outdoors/images/v081905db-0162.jpg
It's a streetlight.
It'a a weather balloon. Or possibly a flock of geese.
Get Charlie Epps and his image enhancing algorithms on it!
Adam, now why let the boring old truth get in the way of a good story?
could that be....I think it is...his noodly appendage !
Finally a glimpse of the evil alien overlord that has been running the country!
Looks like he's in a row boat. The previous pic is of a fly fishing rod.
Does it scare anyone else that William Gibson is spending his time staring deeply into the eyes of Dick Cheney? Is this the secret to his inspiration?
It's a Lee Harvey Oswald sock-puppet.
A scantily clad lady holding the camera while taking this pic?
See, I was going to say naked woman, which would explain the grin, but that's probably more of a Freudian mind trick than reality. if you look at the original photo sequence (http://www.whitehouse.gov/vicepresident/photoessays/outdoors/06.html) it makes sense that it's his hand, and the body parts line up for that.
no naked women on Cheney's fishing trips :(
See, I was going to say naked woman, which would explain the grin, but that's probably more of a Freudian mind trick than reality. if you look at the original photo sequence (http://www.whitehouse.gov/vicepresident/photoessays/outdoors/06.html) it makes sense that it's his hand, and the body parts line up for that.
no naked women on Cheney's fishing trips :(
What does it say about my brain, that everyone else sees a naked woman or Cheney's undead hand, and I see a rubber chicken?
#4: I see what you did there ;P
How many times must I remind you... republicans do not have sex. ( this is the last generation of them. )
Did anyone else think the oddity in this picture was not any reflection, but the fact that Dick Cheney can smile? I thought his smiling muscles would have atrophied long ago...
Bastige belongs in a cell in the Hague. Not out flyfishing.
if you look closely, it's actually osama...
(http://www.flickr.com/photos/guidomescalito/2402484995/)
Its someone holding up a fish in front of himself/herself--fairly clear in the right lens (the left one in the photo).
If I remember well, Bush takes advice from an Grey Alien, so it's not suprising that Cheney goes fishing with Cthulhu.
http://www.boingboing.net/2007/09/07/bushs-alien-overlord.html
At higher resolution, you can see that its just a fishing rod and he has disgusting teeth with bits of stuff in them.
Sadly, it'd only his hand
http://spaceparanoids.net/temp/cheney_reflection.jpg
I think it's Jamie Hyneman! :-)
I'm pretty sure it's a reflection of a fellow fisherman. I put an analysis of it up on my blog that demonstrates that.
http://www.danray.net/2008/04/10/whats-in-dicks-glasses
I see Wilfred Brimley turning into The Thing.
No, no, no... It's obviously the Flying Spaghetti Monster! He touched Dick with his noodly appendage! Err...
I recognise those googley eyes. Cheney's fishing with Homer Simpson! It would explain where a lot of his opinions come from.
Looks like a prisoner from Abu Ghraib, bound and naked with a hood covering his head. That smile would fit the situation. Now if you really stretch your eyes, his hand looks like it is making a gun sign.
Or this is photo of him fishing :)
In my heart of hearts I believe the former.
the man pictured here is smiling--definitive proof that this is not cheney but an impostor. maybe the alien disguised as a hand holding a fishing rod is controlling cheney's cerebral cortex. i can think of no other explanation.
It's just his hand on the fishing rod. Here's a higher res photo.
http://www.whitehouse.gov/vicepresident/photoessays/outdoors/images/v081905db-0162.jpg
What kind of a claw does Dick Cheney have on the end of his arm?
Dick Cheney eats children like a gourmand an orlotan
It looks a bit to me like a statue resembling the Venus of Willendorf:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Venus_of_Willendorf
It’s actually Cheney’s hand holding his fishing pole.
http://www.whitehouse.gov/vicepresident/photoessays/outdoors/images/v081905db-0162.jpg
Looks like a naked woman to me, mind you I'm usually on the lookout for naked women. That prick Dick Cheney definitely does detract from the experience.
#18: "How many times must I remind you... republicans do not have sex."
At least, not as we know it.
Its CTHULHU! All is LOST verily!!!
Oh come on, that's reel. (Tho, at that size, I think he's going to need a bigger boat.)
Yeah, it's a hand holding a fishing rod.
Even without the high res photo someone linked to, I knoew it wasn't a naked woman. Dick Cheney wouldn't smile at the sight at a naked woman. It would just be a reminder he couldn't do anything with said naked woman anyway. You know how all the erectile dysfunction drug ads say their drugs are not for men too unhealthy for sex? They have half-undead old farts like Bum Ticker Cheney in mind when they say that. Besides, does this angry, misathropic crank even kiss the missus on the cheek any more?
Given the predominatly gay peccidillos of various and sundry right wingers, I would have sooner guessed the reflection was that of a well-oiled naked cabana boy.
#16 == By far the most awesome interpretation!
You know, the largely benign Jimmy Carter was menaced by some sort of talking aquatic bunny; it makes sense that now that full-on Batman-style arch-villains are in charge of the country, the Old Ones are taking an interest. It is a bit chilling to see the lunatic ecstasy on his face as Father Dagon or whomever rises from the frigid deep to devour the last rancid morsels of his sanity and soul.
P.S. On closer inspection, I think it's a mandrake root, or maybe his arm holding a rod and reel. At any rate, it's good to see that vice-Nero can enjoy himself as Rome burns. Must be thinking about kicking a puppy or something.
Republicans only have sex with men in airport toilets in Minnesota.
I spy Xenu!
It looks like Wilford Brimley.
nope, its simply Dick Cheney's next target, why do you think he's smiling?!
#11 posted by giantnegro , April 10, 2008 2:45 AM
Does it scare anyone else that William Gibson is spending his time staring deeply into the eyes of Dick Cheney?
There's nothing unusual about William Gibson contemplating mirrorshades. One of the foundation blocks of cyberpunk is that people look cool and scary at the same time while wearing mirrorshades.
We could be in for some serious trouble. Looks like hes captured Admiral Ackbar. Alert the rebel commanders.
Actually methinks it's a reflection of a hand holding a , in the process of hauling in a fishy. Or, the mutilated remains of today's brave (but doomed) fishing partner.
Actually methinks it's a reflection of a hand holding a net, in the process of hauling in a fishy. Or, the mutilated remains of today's brave (but doomed) fishing partner.
@18: from your mouth (keyboard) to God's ears!
McClatchy Newspapers did this: on the subject.
Looks to me like a big ass praying mantis...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Ameles_decolor01.jpg
no, no,... the simple, awful truth is that the image is what happens after Cheney hears the latest casualty figures and has time to unzip his fly
Cheney = Darth vader
in three easy steps
1. is more machine than man.
2. serves a dark lord of the sith
3 shoots people in the face
Ok, is it just me, or does the dude's arm in high-def format look unnervingly like a penis? NO, REALLY D: Look.
Oh my gosh fish, RUN! The VP has a gun! And he's smile-ing!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6wXAzAgb4pA
Jesus, if you had told me a week ago that I'd be willingly looking at a high-rez pic of Dick Cheney's face I wouldn't have believed you.
At the White House site it says this pic is of Cheney riding horseback at his ranch in Wyoming...also, he's not wearing his "flyfishing" outfit in this pic. Also, that's part of his right cheek..looking like a leg...yep..it's ALIEN!!! BIG eyes, nose, and antenna!!! Male methinks...:)
This is hilarious!!! Amazing what reflection and resolution can do...alien to thumb...LOL
"riding horsieback" on George?
This is now on the front page of Yahoo. Almost every day I see some story on BB and then 3 or 4 days later, there it is on Yhoo. They are lazy and they really like to read BoingBoing.
No matter what the reflection is, why is this man fishing and having fun while our soldiers are getting blown up in Iraq and Afghanistan?
Shame!
why? because it gives him sexual gratification.
Count on it: In the honey moon years when Saddam Hussein was an ally and well-supported friend of America, Cheney would visit Iraq and share the pleasures of the private torture rooms. Look at his face.